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(Reuters) Angola's largest private oil and gas company Azule Energy plans to raise production by around 14% to 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) by 2026, its CEO said on Thursday, in a boost to the country's plans to turn around flagging output. Azule Energy, a 50/50 joint venture between Eni and BP formed last year when the... Continue Reading →
(OET) Brazilian oil and gas player Enauta has changed the timeline for the restart of production from a floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is working on a field off Brazil. This FPSO is now anticipated to come back online by November 2023. Originally, the production was expected to resume by early September... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Italy's Eni hopes to reach a final investment decision on its second floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique by the end of June next year, two sources directly involved with the project said on Tuesday. Its first LNG project - called Coral Sul - made the impoverished African country a global producer... Continue Reading →
(OM) Oceaneering's wholly owned subsidiary Marine Production Systems do Brasil Ltda. has secured a five-year contract from Petrobras for the operation of three existing drillpipe riser systems to support intervention and completion operations in Brazil. Petrobras also has the option to add a fourth drillpipe riser system by notifying Oceaneering prior to mid-December 2023. The contract... Continue Reading →
Founded on October 3, 1953, Petrobras developed alongside Brazil and became the largest company in the country, an icon for Brazilians. An international reference in the oil and gas sector, the company has achieved notable achievements and has become a company of global relevance. The boosting of the energy industry, the discovery of the pre-salt,... Continue Reading →
(TN) ANP released the Monthly Oil and Natural Gas Production Bulletin for August 2023, which provides consolidated data on national production. Total production (oil + natural gas) was 4.392 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (MMboe/d). Regarding oil, 3.462 million barrels per day (MMbbl/d) were extracted, a reduction of 1.4% compared to the previous... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Studies by Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras show that a single oil block of Amapa's equatorial margin could total more than 5.6 billion barrels of oil, the country's mines and energy minister said on Friday. Alexandre Silveira's remarks come as the oil giant bids to drill a well at the mouth of the Amazon... Continue Reading →
Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has awarded TechnipFMC with a contract to supply flexible pipes for pre-salt fields offshore Brazil. Under the contract deemed as “significant”, TechnipFMC will design, engineer, and manufacture 14 kilometers of gas injection riser pipes and will supply associated services including packing and storage. Jonathan Landes, President of Subsea at TechnipFMC... Continue Reading →
(OE) Offshore development of new gas assets has been identified as a key piece to Colombia’s long-term energy security, but significant challenges remain. The size, production capability, and required infrastructure investments all make the situation uncertain, energy industry intelligence group Wood Mackenzie has found. According to Wood Mackenzie, the development of recent offshore gas discoveries... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) The last major piece of infrastructure needed to start production at Mexico's first floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant is set to depart from a Texas shipyard next week, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a notice to shippers. LNG developer New Fortress Energy is planning to begin production at the 1.4-million-tons-per-year floating plant... Continue Reading →
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